US releases photographs of Saddam's slain sons

July 25 2003

The US military released photographs of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay in a bid to prove to sceptical Iraqis that the feared brothers had been killed.

Officers in Baghdad released two mortuary pictures of the upper body and head of Uday, 39, and two of Qusay, 37, along with comparative pictures of the brothers when they were alive and X-ray slides apparently used to help identify Uday.